Re: Idle time

[Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org> writes:

> In my opinion, the essential function would be something similar to pause in 
> POSIX, since the timer itself is an event.
>
> If you want to stop CPU while waiting, the events must be hardware interrupts, 
> or triggered by hardware interrupts (such as a timer). Probably the most 
> difficult architecture is PC in this case, because the interrupt handling is 
> different between protected mode and real mode, and we may not interfere with 
> BIOS. Looking at Etherboot's experience, this should be feasible but not 
> trivial.

I think there is some CPU based functionality for this as well.

> However, it is easy to make a fake component for this, so I don't object to 
> this. For example:

I had a slightly different model in mind, although it looks like
yours.  How about me start getting coding, submit a patch and we can
talk about that?

After this I can do some networking hacking.  Which I want to submit
within a month or so.

Thanks,
Marco